The old Chinese grandmother tells Meng, "you do not know war". The only war in recent memory that China had a fairly large-scale involvement, for which she would be young enough to fight, is a war between China and Vietnam in 1979. Certainly going up against the Vietnamese, who'd just gotten done throwing another much larger country's military out of their country, would have given her a healthy respect for the dangers of war.
Even though the cyber attack was ultimately stopped, both China and Russia are going to want answers as to why America was at the epicenter of a massive act of cyber terrorism that nearly destabilized their countries.
